Imagining the Course of Life: Self-Transformation in a Shan Buddhist Community

by Nancy Eberhardt

Book Overview

Imagining the Course of Life offers a rich portrait of rural life in contemporary Southeast Asia and an accessible introduction to the complexities of Theravada Buddhism as it is actually lived and experienced. It is both an ethnography of indigenous views of human development and a theoretical consideration of how any ethnopsychology is embedded in society and culture. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in a Shan village in northern Thailand, Nancy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824830172
• ISBN13: 9780824830175
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"